Calling and Promise Session 4_Starring Role Sleep and Dreams

We spend one-third of our life sleeping.

If it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep at night it means you are sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you’re still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy during the day.

Five minutes after the end of a dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is forgotten.

Research has shown that, even though we might not remember them, we all dream several times a night. In fact, during a typical lifetime, we spend over six years dreaming!

Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until they are about four years old.

Although our dreams are frequently full of strangers, your mind is not inventing any of their faces. They are all real people you have seen during your life, but may not remember. The evil killer in your latest dream may have served you in a shop years and years ago!

If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

During the Roman era, some dreams were submitted to the Roman Senate for analysis and dream interpretation. Dream interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battles.

People tend to have common, reoccurring themes in their dreams. For example, situations relating to school, being chased, falling, arriving too late, teeth falling out or flying.

People that have been blind from birth dream just as much as everyone else, however, their dreams are formed from their other senses – touch, smell, taste and sound.

Your body is virtually paralysed while you are actually asleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out your dreams!

The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes during a rocking- chair marathon.

Calling and Promise Session 4_Starring Role Sleep and Dreams